The Thing Quotes

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

Backstabbers specialize in saying the wrong thing at the wrong time to the wrong person.

I never did one thing right in my life, you know that? Not one. That takes skill.

I tell you one thing - if you want peace of mind, don not fault with others.

Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.

It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it

It's one thing to make peace with the idea of something that's going to happen someday; it's another to find yourself at that day.

I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.

The people who influence us are those who have stood unconsciously for the right thing. They are like the stars and the lilies, and the joy of God flows through them all the time.

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle.

One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness.

One thing you can rely on is that there will always be uncertainty.

Always do the right thing, always be exciting, always be encouraging, and always be learning something new.

If there's one thing that we're very good at as humans, it's remembering the bad stuff. For some reason, it's always the pain that gets you.

If I lose the ball, I lose it trying to do the right thing. That's the way it is.

Anger, as long as it is controlled anger, is no obstacle to efficiency. Self-control is one thing the sociopath does not usually possess. Use yours to his undoing.

You can accomplish a hundred other things but if you do not accomplish the one thing for which you have been sent, it will be as if you have done nothing.

Because one thing God gave us- and I'm afraid it's at times a little too much- is freewill. Freedom to choose. I believe he gave us everything needed to build a beautiful world, if we choose wisely.

The camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say - himself.

A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.

One thing I really hate about people who play both acoustic and electric is if they try to play electric style on an acoustic guitar. You must develop it as a totally different thing.

Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves.

The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

Publicly, we say one thing....Actually, we do another.

You can work hard, do everything that you think is right, but one thing you'll never overcome in life is fate. You can't control fate.

Don't be afraid to spend money to make money. That's one thing I've never been afraid of... to invest in myself.

Often one goes for one thing and finds another

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

For me, I don't go in the backdoor. That's the one thing I don't do.

You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless.

I think one thing that always attracted me to movies was the personalities. I went to movies not because the stories necessarily appealed to me, but because of the people in them.

The one thing with stress is, you've got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.

Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at.

There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!

If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.

I have never even had a sip of alcohol, never have done drugs. The hardest thing I have ever done would be Pepsi.

The one thing that is absolutely essential is that there shouldn't be any governmental control [of the media] directly or indirectly.

God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not put up with in it--a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place.

The one thing that separates winners from the losers, is , winners take action.

One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.

You can go to church and sing a hymn, Judge me by the colour of my skin, You can live a lie until you die, One thing you can't hide is when you're crippled inside.

I will tell you one thing. They will never drag me out like a little old widow like they did Mrs. Wilson when President Wilson died. I will never be used that way.

Faith is homesickness. Faith is a lump in the throat. Faith is less a position on than a movement toward, less a sure thing than a hunch. Faith is waiting.

I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.

There is never one absolutely right thing to do. All you can do is honor what you believe, accept the consequences of your own actions, and make the best out of what happens.

And I Jack, the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing.

When you have a spirit of excellence, you do the right thing not because somebody is watching or making you do it; you do it because it's the right thing to do.

Being productive and being busy are not necessarily the same thing. Doing things won’t create your success; doing the right things will.